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Rosanna Arquette has said she is the only Pulp Fiction actor who didn't receive a cut of the 1994 movie's lucrative box office takings.
Made for just $8 million, 's movie became a massive critical and commercial success, eventually grossing more than $213.9 million worldwide.
The film's cast which included A-listers such as and , who was in desperate need of a box office comeback, all agreed to smaller salaries for the independent movie - Willis slashed his usual $10M salary to just $800k - but were contracted to receive a percentage of any profits.
Arquette, 66, had a minor but memorable role in the movie, playing the drug dealer Eric Stoltz's wife, but has now revealed she was cut out of the profits share.
'I'm the only person who didn't get a back end [a share of the takings]. Everybody made money except me,' she told The Sunday Times Magazine.
Arquette, who in the same interview, doesn't place the blame with the director, instead believing the film's producer Harvey Weinstein ensured she was cut out the cast's deal.
Rosanna Arquette has said she is the only Pulp Fiction actor who didn't receive a cut of the 1994 movie's lucrative box office takings
Weinstein, 73 - who is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence for rape - sexually harrassed Arquette in the early 1990s at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
'I was fortunate because I was not raped. But, boy, was it going there and I paid a price for saying no, and later I paid a price for telling the truth,' Arquette said.
Arquette was one of dozens of women who accused the disgraced producer of sexual misconduct amid the #MeToo movement in late 2017, which ultimately led to Weinstein's 2022 sex assault conviction.
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The actress has criticised Tarantino, who also wrote the movie, for his use of the racial slur (about 20 times) in the motion picture, leading to a bitter war of words between the one-time friends this week.
'Personally I am over the use of the N-word - I hate it,' Arquette told The Times. 'I cannot stand that [Tarantino] has been given a hall pass,' she said. 'It's not art, it's just racist and creepy.'
In a strongly-worded response to the actress Tarantino, 62, said in a Tuesday statement to the Daily Mail: 'I gave you a job, and you took the money.'
He said, 'Dear Rosanna, I hope the publicity you’re getting from 132 different media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was worth disrespecting me and a film I remember quite clearly you were thrilled to be a part of?'
Tarantino was critical of Arquette for slamming the motion picture more than three decades after its release.
'Do you feel this way now? Very possibly' Tarantino said. 'After I gave you a job, and you took the money, to trash it for what I suspect is very cynical reasons, shows a decided lack of class, no less honor.'
Arquette had a minor but memorable role in the movie, playing the drug dealer Eric Stoltz's wife, but has now revealed she was cut out of the profits share
The film's cast all agreed to smaller salaries for the independent movie - Bruce Willis slashed his usual $10M salary to $800k - but were contracted to receive a percentage of any profits (Quentin Tarantino pictured with Willis on set)
The director said that 'there is supposed to be an esprit de corps between artistic colleagues.'
The French phrase used by Tarantino referred to 'the common spirit existing in the members of a group and inspiring enthusiasm, devotion, and strong regard for the honor of the group,' according to Merriam-Webster's dictionary.
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Tarantino told Arquette, 'It would appear the objective was accomplished,' finishing off the statement in writing, 'Congratulations - Q.'
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